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Re:Flutter desktop shells by jacobolus on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:21PM (#19753777)
My experience is that every Electron app I’ve ever tried has a terrible “user experience” compared to average competently made native Mac apps. Their core UI widgets are non-standard for the platform and are full of bugs and inconsistencies. Latency is through the roof on all sorts of common interactions. They don’t integrate well with standard expected OS features/services. They burn massive amounts of system resources.

From my perspective as a user, Electron apps are for companies who don’t really care much about quality and are too cheap and lazy to write native apps. YMMV.

Re:Flutter desktop shells by userbinator on Thursday April 25, 2019 @10:31PM (#19754365)
Electron is basically "write a web app, package it with a browser, and call it a desktop app."

Ironically, Microsoft was one of the early adopters of the idea of "web technologies for desktop apps":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application

Re:Flutter desktop shells by semireg on Thursday April 25, 2019 @10:57PM (#19754472)
I’m a company of one and I care about quality. I’ve shipped native apps for Mac, iOS and Android.

About a year ago I began work on Label LIVE, an Electron app to interface with thermal label printers. It’s not perfect but it fills a niche. It wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for Electron. Check out the video or download and give it a try. http://label.live